Back at it..
Yesterday we were back to part time school. It is impossible for me to jump back in full time with Grandma still here…we want to spend as much time with her as possible.
Since a couple of the kids had colds, I left Elizabeth to baby-sit them and the RAD kid who couldn’t quite wrap his head around math ( 8+0= ?) even though he was doing two digit by two digit multiplication. The rest of us went shopping and out for lunch. We had a wonderful time with Grandma and then came home and relaxed.
The puppy is back out in the “ugly” house because the kids are just too distracted to watch her. I also noticed that a couple more kids are coming down with colds. Great.
Last night I asked two boys to take the other dogs out and they went outside and fooled around like boys do when you have more than one of them together. They assured me that the dogs didn’t have to poop…and you will never guess what I found in the living room early this morning. Yep…dog poop.
So, I woke the boy up who was responsible…VERY early…and he cleaned up the mess and took dogs out for a walk to end of the field. I am NOT happy! I have read that in the tween and teen years, there is a MAJOR reorganizing of the brain, which causes children to not be able to think. They do dumb things and when you ask them why they did it, they say they don’t know. The article said that they really DO NOT KNOW why they would do something so dumb…this is because of the brain upgrade that they are getting. All children go through this, not just boys, however, it is the boys that take longer for the upgrade. In fact, I think the upgrade may not be complete in the male gender until well into the 30′s or even 40 years of age. This could explain why my husband laughs hysterically at the dumb things his boys say and do while the girls and I don’t even smile.
Time to get going today….more later.